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5.6.4 APPEN FLASH CARDS
Some experts highlighted the use of linguistic apps, for instance Flash Cards. The main
experience is that you achieve the best language learning results among adult learners
in employment-oriented language education, when you combine the general employ-
ment-oriented Danish education with training of work- and task-specific vocabulary.

The linguistic apps have their special strength in this area, as they make possible to
introduce a digital image- and sound-based teaching tool, giving the learners the op-
portunity to train precisely the work- and task-specific vocabulary that she/he needs to
acquire or maintain employment by training task-specific vocabulary of specific work
tools linked to specific work tasks.

5.6.5 VIDEOBASED PEER PRACTICE AMONG LANGUAGE TEACHERS
The project Erasmus+ project “Videobased Peer Practice among Language Teachers”
(V-Pal) initiated 2019-20 a digital platform that aimed to strengthen digital profession-
al sparring between language teachers, including during shutdowns. The idea has been
for language teachers to upload short videos on the portal, describing in a brief and
precise form examples of practical teaching methodologies and materials that are
transferable to other language colleagues. In practice, this has been done by each
teacher carefully reflecting on what he/she wants to convey. A storyboard was then
prepared, allowing teachers to follow a common and uniform template for the video.
The template includes a section describing the target group of learners and a section
where the teacher facilitates the methodology to a group of learners. In addition,
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there are attention points in relation to the concrete application .
One of the key conclusions from the project is precisely that V-Pal does not need to
limit itself to language teaching. The methodology can certainly be applied to other
types of adult education - as well as teaching contexts including children and youth.

24 Cf Petersen Anne Charlotte (2021): ”Film yourself and strengthen your teaching”. A review in “Digital
opportunities in Erasmus+”, op.cit. The project was based on the Peer Practice methodology, as devel-
oped by Nicolai Seest, see the English version: Petersen, Seest, Cone and Heesen: “V-Pal. Videobased
Peer Learning among Language Teachers”.